The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-05

| seems to have come down. q Christian
young womani if you would make yourself
happy and win the blessing of Christ, go
! out among the destitute A loaf of bread
or bundle of socks may make homely
load to carry but the angels of God will
come out to watch, and the Lord Almighty
will give His messenger hosts a charge, say
ing: Look after that woman Canopy
her with your wings and shelter her from
all harm;" and while you are seated in the
house of destitution and suffering, the little
ones around the room will whisper: who
is she, Amt she beautifulE' and if you
will listen right sharply you will hear drip
| ping down through the leally roof and rolling
over the rottenistabs, the angel chant that
shook Bethlehem. GLORY to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good win to
men" Can YOU tell me why Christian
woman, going down among the haunts of
iniquity on ,Mh Christian errand never
meets with1Ns Fanny indignity2 l
stood ingthe chapel of Helen
Chalmers, Che &lapghter OF the celebruted
| DR. Chalmers, irsthe most abandoned part
of the city of Edinburgh; and | said TO her
as | looked around upon the fearful sur
| roundings of that place: 'Do you come here
nights to hold q service" 80, yes,n she
said Can it be possible that you never
meet with an insult while performing this
Christian elTand!' Never" she said
never" That young woman who has her
| father by her side walking down the street,
an armed police at each corner, is not SO well
| defended as that Christian woman who goes
forth on Gospel work into the haunts of
| iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread.
God, with the red right arm of His wrath
omnipotent, would tear to pieces any one
who should offer indignity. He would
smite him with lightnings and drown him
with floods, and swallow him with earth
quakes, and damn him with eternal indig
nations. Some one said: 81 dislike very
much to see that Christian woman
mission school. ! am afraid to
have her instruct them" $50" said
another man, 81 am afraid, too" Said the
first; II am afraid they will use vile Ian
guage before they leave the place" ''Ah.
said the other man, II am not afraid of
| that, What am afraid of is, that if any
of those boys should use a bad word in that
presence, the other boys would tear him to
pieces and kill him on the spot" That
woman is the best sheltered who is sheltered
by the Lord God Almighty, and you need
never fear going anywhere where God tells
you to go.
1t seems as If the Lord had ordained
woman for an especial work in the solicita-
tion Of charities. Backed up by barrels in
which there is no -four, and by stoves in
which there is no fire, and by wardrobes in
sistible; passing on her errand, God says to
her: "You go into that bank, or store, or
shop, and get the money" She goes in and
gets it, The man is hartl- listed but she gets
il. She could not help but get it. IL is
decreed from eternity she should
get it. No need of your turning your back
ana pretending you don't hear. You do
hear. There is no need of your saying you
are begged to death. There is no need of
your wasting your time, and you might
as well submit first as last. You had
better right away take down your
check-book, mark the number of the
check, fill up the blank, sign your
name and hand it to her There is no
need of wasting time Those poor children
on the back street have been hungry long
enough. That sick man must have some
farina. That consumptive must have some
thing to ease his cough. l meet this delegate
of relief society coming out of the store of
such hard-fisted man, and l say: did
you get the money "Of course" she
says, 81 got the money; that's what | went
for. The Lord told me to go in and get it,
and He never sends me on fools errand."
Again: have to tell you that it is a
woman's specific right to comfort under the
stress of dire disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel; but all profane as well as
sacred history, attests that when the
crisis comes she il better prepared than man
to meet the emergency. How often you
have seen woman who seemed to be dis
ciple of frivolity and Incidence, who. under
one stroke of calamity, changed TO hero
inc Oh, what a great mistake those bust
ness men make who never tell their business
troubles to their wivesl There comes some
great loss to their store, or some of their
companions in business play them sad
trick, and they carry the burden all alone.
He is asked in the household again and
again What is the matter! But he be-
lieves it is a sort of Christian duty to keep
all that trouble within his own soul. Oh,
sir! your first duty was TO tell your
wife all about it, She, perhaps
might not have disentagled your
finances, or extended your credit, but she
would have helped you to bear misfortune.
You have no right to carry on one shoulder
that which is intended for two. There are
business men here who know what | mean.
There came a crisis in your affairs. You
struggled bravely and long; but after
awhile there came day when you said:
Here shall have to stop" and you called
in your partners, and You called in the most
prominent men in your employ, and you
said I'VE have got 10 stop" You left the
store suddenly You could hardly make up
your mind TO pass through the street and
over on the ferry boat You felt everybody
would be looking at you, and blaming you,
and denouncing you. You hastened home.
You told your wife all about the affair.
What did she says Did she play the butter
hyg Did she talk about the silks,
and the ribbons, and the fashionsl Z
No. She came up TO the emer-
gency. She quailed not under the
stroke. She helped you TO begin to plan
right away She offered to go out of the
comfortable house into smaller one, and
wear the old CLOAK another winter. She
was one who understood your affairs with
out blaming you. You looked upon what
you thought was thin, weak wonan's arm
holding you up; but while you looked at
that arm, there came into the feeble muscles
of it the strength OF the eternal God. No
chiding. No fretting. No telling you about
the beautiful house of her father, from
which you brought her, ten, twenty, or
thirty years ago You said: "Wel, this is
the happiest day of my life. | am glad
have got from under my burden. My wife
don't care-I don't care" At the moment
you were utterly exhausted, God sent a De
borah to meet the host Of the Analekites